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# Dev Digest 179: rm -rf, Agent Style, NPM hacks & Browser Design Tools

**By:** [Daniel Cranney](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@daniel-cranney)

**Published:** August 4, 2025

## Inside last week’s [Dev Digest 179](https://newsletter.wearedevelopers.com/179).

https://www.youtube.com/embed/l2-txHDj06I

🌍 AI is eating the internet  
💡 Reverse engineering GitHub Spark with itself  
📦 NPM under attack - ‘is’ package compromised  
⚠️ AI code assistant almost wiped the computers of 1M users  
📝 The State of HTML Survey is open!  
🤫 AI agent deletes sensitive data and lies about it  
✅ A Frontend performance checklist for 2025  
📄 WCAG in plain English  
🟨 JavaScript in Spanish  
🐣 Birds transferring data at 2MB/s

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